Why Is Papua New Guinea the Most Linguistically Diverse Country in The World?
The Language of Identity
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3 min readApr 18, 2024
On the southern Pacific Sea, roughly the size of California, lies Papua New Guinea, home to 0.13% of the world’s population yet over 800 living languages are found in the country totaling nearly 12% of the world’s languages. But why does this moderately sized country boast so much linguistic diversity?
